#words

Philosophy is common sense with big words. ↗

— James Madison

#common #common sense #philosophy #sense #words

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#bats #like #maliciously #used #words

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#express #how #soon #strangely #thing

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#bother #composer #could #had #say

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#character #comes #course #differences #each

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#escapism #idea #life #my life #sum

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customs #existing #merely #people #roman

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#give #music #poem #said #translation

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#brother #go #i #just #know

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words. ↗

— Charles Manson

#another #courtroom #fight #going #i